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I came across a very interesting article about Google and it’s a great second act to my post Venture with Wit. The journalist has asked several CEO of US Internet companies the following question : What Should Google Do Next? Answers are great:

"There’s so much work that needs to be done around search," Sifry said,
for real this time. If he were Google, he’d spend the next five years
working on "a Google of intention," driven by users’ real-time needs. CEO of Technorati

"I would get search working, because the results are cluttered with
commercial rubbish that ought really to be in the advertising zone. Try
doing a search in a category such as travel, for instance, for
Barcelona hotels. It’s useless."Nick Denton, publisher of the blog network company Gawker Media
–> You should try givemebackmygoogle to have an idea why.

Greg Linden, who created the personalized news Web site Findory.com,
wrote in an e-mail that e-commerce — helping people find things they
want to buy — should be a key push. "Google should be the first stop for anyone wanting to buy anything online," CEO of findory

"One service that would give Google at least a decade of customer
loyalty: use the collective intelligence of its users to eradicate
spam," Henry Copeland, founder of the BlogAds network

Personaly, I would like to add these two :
- Data Switzerland, from Battelle. The search as one brilliant point: Google is a database of intention and it raises Security question. You have to read his post.
- Human computation. See my last post. It’s great and Human is still a pretty good machine.

We then have work for the next 5 years !

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